Michael Moore: White People Want Guns Because … Black People

December 21, 2012

If you look around at pics of Moore, he always has his mouth open. I don’t think he’s as relevant as he was a few years ago – maybe just his latest cry for attention beyond whatever echo chamber he’s in these days.

And I was fascinated in that subject when making ‘Bowling for Columbine,’ of how fear is used to the point where everybody feels like they’ve got to have a gun in the house. Now, not every house has a gun but we’ve got over a quarter-billion guns in people’s homes. And they’re mostly in the suburbs and rural areas where there is virtually no crime and no murder. So why is that? What are they really afraid of? What do they think of — who’s going to break into the house? Do they think it’s little freckled-face Jimmy down the street? I don’t think so. I don’t think that’s who they’re afraid of. And it cuts down to the heart of our race problem that we still haven’t resolved. And I thought it would be interesting to take a look at that in the movie.

Looking at how many people get shot each week in Chicago alone, it would seem there are VAST numbers of guns in URBAN areas, too.

(But given the demographics of the Chicago shootings –mostly black on black, I’m afraid– it would seem prudent for folks in those crime-ridden areas to have a weapon for self-protection, even if they are de facto “getting guns because … black people”. Does that make the people wishing to protect themselves…. raaacists? Egad!)

Ummmm…. Didn’t this whole gun debate start, because a “white guy” killed his mother, then later teachers and students in an elementary school? I mean, how in the hell do people black people come into this picture?